Oracle Judge Tells Jury to Keep Trying Amid ‘Possible’ Deadlock
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A juror in Oracle Inc.’s copyright-infringement trial against Google Inc. asked the judge for guidance about not being able to reach a unanimous verdict, raising the possibility the panel is deadlocked.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup, presiding over the trial in San Francisco, sent the 12-member jury home yesterday with orders to return today to “start fresh.” He proposed to Oracle and Google lawyers, without the jury present, that they accept a partial verdict if there are questions the panel agrees on, and said the trial should move into the next phase dealing with patent-infringement claims.